Bob Dylan wins Nobel Prize in Literature

By: Treble staff

Bob Dylan has won the Nobel Prize in Literature, joining a list of writers that includes Herman Hesse, T.S. Eliot, William Faulkner, Sir Winston Churchill, Albert Camus and Samuel Beckett. The award was given to Dylan “for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition.” The prize comes with a cash award of 8 million Swedish kronor (about $900,000).